# Accessing main timeline + lower levels/swfs

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-main-timeline-lower-levels-swfs/281077>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 4, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-main-timeline-lower-levels-swfs/281077 "2009-02-04T18:02:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![pinging](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@pinging](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pinging)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-main-timeline-lower-levels-swfs/281077/1 "2009-02-04T18:02:43Z")

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Hey, hope this isn’t too simple for everyone, its sure hard enough for me.

Ok I have a swf that uses attachMovie to load the main swf after preloading. This main swf is loaded on level 0.

Inside this I am calling a swf into the main timeline with loadMovie(“site.swf”, 0). But, i am using the same method inside the external swf (attachMovie) to load the movie after preloading.

So things are setup like this

Preload (attachmovie) Maintimeline.swf  
\<in main timeline\> Click to call external swf into maintimeline.swf using loadMovie.  
(this loaded swf uses the same preloader as the maintimeline.swf (attachmovie).

Everything loads fine, but I cant figure out how to access the maintimeline from the external swf(which loads itself using attachMovie + preloader). I want to click a button in the external swf and have it change the frame of a movieclip in the maintimeline.

Seems like a mess to me. I think i must have to use a more simple preloader for the external swf that way I can cutout the additional layering/levels. But if I can keep the preloader I would like to.

Anything helps. Thanks!